Yes, but had Kim Cattrall agreed to play Saavik, the character name change wouldn't have happened. Contralually, as Creative Consultant, GR had to be given the opportunity to write memos on every draft script - and he did - but no one had to listen to him.

Yeah. That's kind of what I was saying too - Gene objected to a lot of things during the TOS movie era, all of which were ignored. It makes a lot of sense that there had to be more to the story than Gene's objection. Your story about the actress makes a lot of sense.

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